According to Smoke E Digglera of Playa, the artists were forced to choose whether they wanted to be signed directly to Def Jam or through Swing Mob, causing a question of loyalty to arise amongst members.

According to The Toyes, " one fine fall day on a small island " of Oahu in Hawaii, two of the band members, Jim and Sandy, were sitting under a large banyan tree on Kuhio Beach, " tokin ' on some sweet bud & jammin ' on a rootsy reggae funky town " when they conceived the song " Smoke Two Joints.

According to his mother, Gloria Carter, her son Shawn used to wake his siblings up at night banging out drum patterns on the kitchen table.

According to Shawn R. Davis, this particular ritual incorporates the elements of the yingim and the danyim.

According to an adult film news web page, in 2003 Michaels was issued a cease and desist order by World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ) on the use of his name due to the similarity it had to WWE wrestler Shawn Michaels.

According to the same adult film web page, Sean's name was already registered as a trademark, while Shawn Michaels had not registered his moniker.

According to a DOJ press release " Shawn Ray Nguyen, 38, and Burlie L. Sholar, 33, were sentenced to 87 months and 108 months in federal prison, respectively, by United States District Judge Kenneth Hoyt on Monday, August 28, 2006.

According to Brian " Small Bird " Fox, Through 2010, Lieberthal may have hit the 5th-most career home runs of any Jewish major league baseball player, behind Hank Greenberg, Shawn Green, Sid Gordon, and Al Rosen, and was 7th on the all-time list in hits ( behind Gordon ) and RBIs ( behind Rosen ).

According to Jannetty it was Curt Hennig who brought him back to the WWF, who was on good terms with Vince McMahon and convinced him that the bad performance at the Royal Rumble was indeed Shawn Michaels ´ fault.

According to Megadeth bassist James Macdonough, Portnoy pulled a prank on Shawn by pouring baby powder on the snare drum when he was getting off the drum kit.

" According to the suit, internal Greenberg e-mails showed that Abramoff associate Michael Scanlon, although not a member of the firm, " billed hours to tribal clients through Greenberg and that members of the law firm, including attorneys Kevin Ring, Shawn Vasell, Stephanie Leger, Todd Boulanger and others, fabricated hours and time entries for Scanlon.

According to Shawn O ' Rourke of PopMatters, the shift from the previous ages involved a " deconstructive and dystopian re-envisioning of iconic characters and the worlds that they live in ", as typified by Frank Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight Returns ( 1986 ) and Alan Moore's and Dave Gibbons ' Watchmen ( 1986 – 1987 ).

According to the December 9, 2007 episode of Shop At Home's The Sports Room show with hosts Kevin Hite and Shawn Leflar, Don West would be a guest host on the December 16, 2007 episode of The Sports Room and make a sculpture of the Empire State building out of butter.

According to programmer Shawn Liptak, Total Carnage failed to reach the target of 2, 000 arcade cabinets ordered.

According to Jay M. Feinman of the Rutgers University School of Law, " The core idea of negligence is that people should exercise reasonable care when they act by taking account of the potential harm that they might foreseeably cause harm to other people.

According to Jay Bybee, those in favor of popular elections for senators felt that there were primarily two issues caused by the original provisions: legislative corruption and electoral deadlocks.

According to Jay R. Howard and John M. Streck, by 1981 Stonehill ( like many other Contemporary Christian Music artists ) had transitioned from an evangelistic focus to one of " encouragement, exhortation, and Christian accountability ".

According to a 1979 Jay and Young study, 40 percent of gay men and 39 percent of gay women in the US had attempted or seriously thought about suicide.

According to the biography by Oberholtzer ( who Cooke and his family assisted ), Jay Cooke visited Pine Grove Furnace repeatedly.

According to Jay, Brett has written two songs for the new album.

According to Stephen Jay Gould, if Lamarck had been aware of Darwin's proposed mechanism of natural selection, there is no reason to assume he would not have accepted it as a more likely alternative to his own mechanism.

According to Divine's manager, Bernard Jay, this was " not because Divine happened to be a gay person himself … but because it was the gay community that openly and proudly identified with the determination of the female character Divine ".

According to his manager Bernard Jay, Divine would also regularly engage in sexual activities with young men that he would meet while performing, sometimes becoming infatuated with them.

According to Bernard Jay, in the last few years of his life, when Divine began to realize that his career in disco was coming to an end and he was struggling to find acting jobs, he began to feel suicidal and threatened to kill himself on a number of occasions.

According to S. Jay Olshansky and Bruce Carnes, " there is neither convincing evidence nor scientific logic to support the claim that adherence to a Paleolithic diet provides a longevity benefit.

According to Jay Nordlinger, on a visit with American dignitaries, Soviet human rights activist Andrei Sakharov said, " Kirkpatski, Kirkpatski, which of you is Kirkpatski?

According to Buddhist scholar Jay Garfield:

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According to Jay Rosen, citizen journalists are " the people formerly known as the audience ," who " were on the receiving end of a media system that ran one way, in a broadcasting pattern, with high entry fees and a few firms competing to speak very loudly while the rest of the population listened in isolation from one another — and who today are not in a situation like that at all.

According to Jay Neitz, a visual spectrum researcher at the University of Washington, the three common types of cones in the human retina — long, medium, and short — can each distinguish approximately 100 intensities of light throughout their continuum of sensitivity within the visual spectrum.

According to Jay Leach, who writes for NHL. com's " learn to play hockey " section, the defence must " Move the puck hard and quick to the open man.

According to Jay Neitz, a renowned color vision researcher at the Medical College of Wisconsin, each of the three standard color-detecting cones in the retina of trichromats – blue, green and red -- can pick up about 100 different gradations of color.

According to Jay Mariotti, he was also regarded as the rock-solid, rebounds-and-defense power forward in contrast to his flamboyant teammate Webber.

According to Clinton Heylin, these were her first shows with drummer Jay Dee Daugherty, the culmination of four years spent " compiling a unique rock & roll sound ".

According to Jay Ferguson of Spirit, Graham would negotiate shrewdly and would frequently offer a lower fee to a band than Helms would, but when the concert was over, he would pay the band in full ; Helms did not always do likewise.

According to Herron, the elbow was in response to Jay Heaps grabbing his " private area " as well as xenophobic and racist comments.

According to Robert Jay Lifton, " his powerful, populist sermon was immediately reproduced and distributed throughout Germany — indeed, it was dropped among German troops by British Royal Air Force flyers.

According to Next Magazine, their relationship got warmer when they performed together at a charity event for the Tsunami victims on January 2005, where Jay played the piano and Patty sang.

According to an obituary by his friend Jay Landesman in The Independent of London, in a childhood incident, classmates " wrote the word ' kosher ' in horse-shit juice across his forehead.

According to the Greek historian, he was of common origins.

According to the authors of the study, " Probably Napoléon also knew his remote oriental patrilineal origins, because Francesco Buonaparte ( the Giovanni son ), who was a mercenary under the orders of the Genoa Republic in Ajaccio in 1490, was nicknamed The Maure of Sarzane ".

According to Aeschylus in the prologue of the Eumenides, it had origins in prehistoric times and the worship of Gaia.

According to Capra biographer Joseph McBride, Capra " obviously felt a strong identification with the story of a Jewish immigrant who grows up in the ghetto of New York ... and feels he has to deny his ethnic origins to rise to success in America.

According to the Polish Kabbalist, " the legend was known to several persons, thus allowing us to speculate that the legend had indeed circulated for some time before it was committed to writing and, consequently, we may assume that its origins are to be traced to the generation immediately following the death of R. Eliyahu, if not earlier.

According to a myth thought to be of ancient origins, Iolaus was Heracles ' charioteer and squire.

According to the American Psychological Association ( APA ), there are numerous theories about the origins of a person's sexual orientation, but some believe that " sexual orientation is most likely the result of a complex interaction of environmental, cognitive and biological factors ," and that genetic factors play a " significant role " in determining a person's sexuality.

According to Rodriguez, the origins of the film go back to Desperado.

According to ancient historians, who perhaps wanted to link Venetic origins to legend of Roman origins in Troy, the Veneti ( often called the Paleoveneti ) came from Paphlagonia in Anatolia at the time of the Fall of Troy ( 12th century BC ), led by prince Antenor, a comrade of Aeneas.

According to conventional historical belief, Puerto Ricans have mainly Spanish ethnic origins, with some African ancestry, and distant and less significant indigenous ancestry.

According to F. M. Warren, it was Gaston Paris, Jeanroy's reviewer, in 1891 who first located troubadour origins in the festive dances of women hearkening the spring in the Loire Valley.

According to Encyclopædia Britannica, Max's Muller's efforts were most successful in the case of the Semites, whose affinities are easy to demonstrate, and probably least successful in the case of the Turanian peoples, whose early origins are hypothetical.

According to Oregon Geographic Names, the origins of the county's name are uncertain, with the most likely explanation being that it is derived from the Nez Perce term for a structure of stakes ( a weir ) used in fishing.

According to Dionysius of Halicarnassus, many Roman historians ( including Porcius Cato and Gaius Sempronius ) regarded the origins of the Romans ( descendants of the Aborigines ) as Greek despite the fact that their knowledge was derived from Greek legendary accounts.

According to a study performed by Lisa Schweitzer, “ transport spills toxic waste transporters, such as trucks generally cluster near origins more than destinations.

In an interview on National Public Radio's Talk of the Nation, Dr. McWhorter characterized AAVE as a " hybrid of regional dialects of Great Britain that slaves in America were exposed to because they often worked alongside the indentured servants who spoke those dialects ..." According to Dr. McWhorter, virtually all linguists who have carefully studied the origins of AAVE " agree that the West African connection is quite minor.

According to some authors, their precise origins remain unknown.

According to Barrès, the People is not founded by an act of autonomy, but find its origins in the earth ( le sol ), history ( institutions, life and material conditions ) and traditions and inheritance (" the dead ").

According to Walter Scott the song is based on a real incident that took place in the seventeenth century, although some modern scholars are sceptical about this story as one of the origins of the song.

According to the company, " The origins of the brand name ' K-Y ' are unknown.

According to Burton Russell, " That the name is a purely modern invention of uncertain origins makes it an elegant symbol of the modern Devil with his many novel and diverse forms.

According to a scholar, the opposition was led mainly by the Bunnags, a merchant-aristocrat family of Persian origins, successors of Ayutthaya's minister of Ports and Finance, or Phra Klang Coupled with the tax revenues that these activities provided — helped restore the kingdom's devastated economy.

According to the Roerich Museum, " The Banner of Peace symbol has ancient origins.

According to Cioran, as long as man has kept in touch with his origins and hasn't cut himself off from himself, he has resisted decadence.